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IIRR International Courses in Africa
Participatory
Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Course Participatory Planning Monitoring and Evaluation (PPM&E) has become an important tool for ensuring efficiency, effectiveness and relevance in development efforts. Conventionally, PPM&E is an external event used for upward reporting specially for donors to determine the fate of projects. This has changed and PPM&E has become a Participatory tool for problem solving, learning, reflection, documentation and accountability to all stakeholders. There are major shifts that contributed to the growing interest in PPM&E.
It is in the background of the above understanding that IIRR-Africa developed the course in Participatory Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Learning Objectives The course aims to enhance the impact of development programs by improving the accountability of development organizations. This can be achieved by enhancing the capacities of development workers in the region. More specifically the course will enable the development worker to:
Course Content
Learning Methods Agency visits, practical field exercises on various aspect of PME, case studies, individual and group work, structured readings and sharing of experiences will be employed. Participants will also develop action plans to improve the performance of their organizations when they return home. Each participant is expected to bring in a written experience, tools and other useful materials and information for sharing with others. Who should Attend? The course is useful for all development workers but more so to PME and MIS officers, program and project managers and CBO/local NGO leaders Course Fees The course fee is $1,300 for residents of the host country and $1,500 for non-residents. A 10% discount will be given to female participants. The fee does not include personal costs, international transport and health insurance. Contacts / More Info For more information and application forms contact: The Training Officer top 4
Gender
and Organizational Development Course Introduction Development experience over time has proved that to achieve sustainable, people centered development, progress towards equality in the roles of women and men is essential. Development practitioners need to understand the prevailing gender relations and design programmes that enable equitable access to resources and benefits. Capacity gaps among development workers hamper efforts in sustainable gender equitable development because:
The
Course is designed for development professionals who seek to build
up their skills and knowledge in mainstreaming gender in their organizations
and their programmes and projects. The Course will focus on concepts
and approaches to mainstreaming gender and how to operationalise these
within the total organization. Course participants will:
The
Course covers the history and rationale of gender and organizational
development, gender analysis and planning, methods and processes for
gender needs assessment and institutional audit. Participants will also share ideas and experiences in mainstreaming men in gender, it’s challenges and emerging opportunities. Duration and training methodology The course takes two weeks. A variety of participatory training techniques and methods are employed to ensure that participants develop the confidence to translate lessons learnt into programs/projects for their organizations. The
fees for these courses are $1,300 for participants of the host country
and $1,500 for other nationals. For more information and application forms contact: The Training Officer top 4
Organizational
Development and Strategic Management The last two decades have witnessed an unprecedented growth of civil society organizations especially CBOs and Indigenous NGOs in Africa. This rapid growth has changed the role of many national and international development organizations from being direct implementers of projects to being capacity support organizations of newly created NGOs/CBOs and associations. The challenge is two-fold. First, the local CBO/NGOs are in their very nascent stage. Therefore they need more time and resources to build their capacities to achieve their missions.Secondly, the bigger organizations that assumed the new role of capacity building struggle with their own capacity issues and know very little about building the capacity of others Also in the global scene,donors and the general public is concerned about development organizations in terms of their:
In response
to this, the emerging trend in development is to include capacity
building and organizational development to produce development impact
that also has process dimensions. Learning Objectives The course will enable CBO/NGO and their support organizations to function more effectively and efficiently to sustainably achieve development impact. It will enable them to:
Course Content
Learning Methods Educational videos, agency visits, practical field exercises on various aspect of PME, case studies, individual and group work, structured readings and sharing of experiences will be employed. Participants will also develop action plans to improve the performance of their organizations when they return home. Each participant is expected to bring in a written experience, tools and other useful materials and information for sharing with others Who should attend The course is relevant to all who are involved in CBO/NGO capacity building of large organizations as well as CBO and NGO leaders. In the past, senior staff from CARE, Save the Children, UNDP, UNICEF, Norwegian Church Aid, Norwegian People’s Aid, etc. from several African countries participated. Course Fees The course fee is $1,300 for residents of the host country and $1,500 for non-residents. A 10% discount will be given to female participants. The fee does not include personal expenses, international transport and health insurance. Contacts / More Info For more information and application forms contact: The Training Officer top 4
Public
Awareness Skills for Strategic Communication Many development agencies do not fully understand the role of Public Awareness (PA) in their development work and so, continue to suffer from inadequate and inappropriate information creation and dissemination. In many development organizations, public awareness is not integrated into development work and the public awareness skills of the staff are not fully developed. Most of the NGOs and CBOs that IIRR partners with in the region have expressed the need to be equipped with practical skills in PA. They desire to know what to say, when to say it and how; they would like to know which media to use to disseminate development information to their target audiences. The evidence of this need is the sudden emergence of many small organizations that are offering short-term courses in PA, and the interest that the whole topic of PA is arousing in the region. Goals The goal of the Public Awareness Skills Development Course is to equip institutions, development agencies and relevant government departments in the Africa Region with knowledge and skills to manage the acquisition, processing, exchange, utilization and dissemination of information and as a result, galvanize public government and donor support to agricultural research in particular but to development in general Learning Objectives The course is designed to enable participants to:
The PA course covers the following areas
Who should attend? The
course targets the communication and public relations personnel of
local and international development organizations, NGOs, and relevant
Government departments. As with all IIRR trainings, the course encourages
gender parity in participation. Incentives are given to encourage
women participants. Each of those trained is expected to train others
to produce a critical mass of public awareness practitioners in the
region. Methodology The
course gives participants hands-on experience to compliment the lectures,
group work, panel discussions, case studies, and simulation exercises.
Towards the end of the workshop, participants are required to come
up with communication strategies as groups, as well as individual
action plans for their organizations. Course Fees $750 (applicable to all participants). Short Term Courses These courses will take 3-5days.They will be advertised and their offer will depend on the number of subscribers. Course being developed are:
These courses will target senior, middle and project managers. Tailor Made/Customized Courses: IIRR-Africa has a remarkable capacity to adapt courses to the needs of specific agencies. In the past, IIRR has packaged and conducted courses for CARE Kenya and Zambia, Action Aid Gambia, Farm Africa in Kenya and Ethiopia, Oxfam Zambia, WFP Ethiopia, LWF in Kenya, FAO, Catholic Relief Services Ethiopia, to name only a few. Technical Services Again, using our practical field experiences, IIRR has provided wide range of technical services in Organizational Assessment, Evaluating projects and programs, formulating strategic plan, development of M&E systems and facilitation services. Support in this area was provided to CARE Kenya, Food for the Hungry Ethiopia, Norwegian Church Aid Ethiopia and Sudan, Royal Norwegian Embassy Tanzania, RELMA/ICRAF, FAO etc. to mention a few. Documentation and Publication Many organizations are weak in documentation. This is one area that IIRR focuses on to enhance the capacity building of development organizations. Over the years, IIRR has supported several African development organizations to document and package their experiences and share with others. Using an innovative and unique approach, IIRR brings experts (Researchers, Extension Workers and Community members) together with Artists, Editors, and Desktop publishing experts who produce publications in a short span of time to document their experiences and produce publications for sharing. Over the years, IIRR-Africa has assisted CARE Kenya, CARE International, RELMA, SIDA, AMREF, FAO, and Norwegian Church Aid Ethiopia in the documentation of their experiences. Also in collaboration with ITDG Kenya, Cordaid, ICCO, Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ethiopia, FGAE Ethiopia, Ford Foundation and FAO, IIRR has produced practical guides, tool kits and manuals for use by development practitioners. For more information please contact: The
Strategic Outreach Manager
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